Experts link extreme Southwest flooding to record El Niño
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Scientists report that a particularly intense El Niño warming cycle is intensifying heavy rains and floods across the Southwest. Flash floods prompted evacuations in northern New Mexico and central Arizona on Sunday, and a Colorado ski town braced for catastrophic river rises.
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“We've had super El Niños in the past, but this is a super duper El Niño”
Jeff Masters, meteorologist
Jeff MastersMeteorologist, Yale Climate ConnectionsDaniel SwainClimate scientist, UC Agriculture and Natural ResourcesRandy CervenyMeteorologist, Arizona State UniversityRyan MaueFormer NOAA chief scientistPark WilliamsResearcher, UC San Diego Scripps Institution
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